"About The Great Northern War " Topic

"The Great Northern War was a series of battles fought to contest the Supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern and Central Europe. It originally pitted Russia, Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania and Saxony against Sweden. The result was a bloodbath that saw Poland switching sides twice (both cases saw the election of a new king), Russia to modernize under Peter I (aka Peter the Great) and the death of the Warrior King, Charles XII and the empire he built with it.

Four treaties ended the conflict as Sweden made peace with Great Britain and Hanover in 1719, with Prussia in early 1720, with Denmark in July 1720 and with Russia in 1721. Humiliatingly Saxony-Poland, one of the powers that started the war, did not get a treaty of its own and would have to wait years for peace with Sweden to be formalized. In the end Russia gained Karelia, Ingria, Estonia and Livonia (essentially the area around and to the north of St. Petersburg, Estonia and part of Latvia). Prussia gained part of Swedish Pomerania (in the coastal region on the modern German-Polish border)note It gained the rest in 1815, Hanover the duchies of Bremen and Verden (in modern-day Lower Saxony), and Denmark the part of the duchy of Schleswig which up until the war had been ruled by the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf…"
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Armand

Interesting. I'm just in the process of deciding wether or not to begin this period.

I flirt with it, more so with scale and then figs. Have thought 10, 15 and even 25 (especially after seeing LoA figs etc. Having said that, I have always liked 1/72 plastic and there are some really well done sets from Zvezda and the series seems complete (from a cursory glance anyway), so, that may sway me.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend.

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Armand

Fascinating period I have become ever so slightly obsessed with, more great figures available than ever before, personal favourite scale is 28mm where you have the brilliant Warfare (LOA) Ebor and Footsore ranges along with the older Reiver and Foundry ones. Armoured Poles, irregular Cossacks and gaudy uniforms of the more western Europena stats, whats not to like?

Glad you enjoyed it too my friend!. (smile)

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